Sunday, January 12, 2014

Foam Dough: Sensory Dough Series

Welcome to a new series--12 Months of Sensory Dough! Each month 11 fellow bloggers and I will share with you our playtime adventures involving a different kind of dough. This month's theme is Foam Dough!

As a busy mother of three, I’m always looking for fun, educational activities that can be done with things readily found around the house. I love creating dough for the kids to play with that uses ingredients commonly found in the kitchen and home. That's why foam dough is so perfect. When searching for an easy recipe, I found this fantastic post that suggested using shaving cream and cornstarch. Since "my take" in this series is all about simplicity and convenience, substitutions can be made...

1. Put a generous portion of your creamy ingredient into a bowl.
2. Gradually add the powdery ingredient and stir until the mixture reaches a fluffy, dough-like consistency.

3. Pour it out for the kids.
4. Play and have fun!

I laid wax paper down first to help contain the mess. Eli was pretty apprehensive about it. You can see that he is watching his big sister before giving it a try himself. He doesn't like to get messy. Lydia Grace dug right in though. Clean-up was easy. The dough mixture washed right off, and then I just threw the wax paper away with all the remaining dough. It was such a fun sensory activity!

Great! I hope they have as my fun with it as my daughter did. I have to tell you this... Since the dough looked like snow, she built a snowman with it and started singing the line from the movie Frozen, "Do you want to build a snowman." Loved it!

Whipping cream? What a wonderful (and tasty!) idea - I love itI don't have kids yet, but I do have many(!!) nephews and nieces I really need to try this dough. I'm sure I'm going to have lots of fun :)

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